Tag Archives: Labor Shortage

Remember the infamous scene in the movie “Jaws” when Roy Scheider’s character, Martin Brody, catches his first glimpse of the size of the great white shark? He shockingly utters one of the film’s best lines to the grizzled captain played by Robert Shaw: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

With most contractors struggling to hire skilled workers, an employee at Wisconsin-based Lunda Construction Co. is saying that companies will have a hard time bringing on a diverse workforce without turning to an equally diverse group of recruiters.

Wisconsin's naggingly persistent labor shortage is leading some Wisconsin contractors to embrace new technology and partnerships in an attempt at showing just how lucrative a career in the skilled trades can be.

Jaime Ramos worked picking ornamental ferns in Florida until he got ready to start a family. He took a higher-paying construction job, but then found himself frustrated by a transient labor force that learns as it goes.